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heavy | have |

As adjectives the difference between heavy and have

is that heavy is (of a physical object) having great weight or heavy can be having the heaves while have is gaunt; pale and thin.

As an adverb heavy

is heavily.

As a noun heavy

is a villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.

As a verb heavy

is to make heavier.

heavy

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hevy, .

Adjective

(er)
  • (of a physical object) Having great weight.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
  • (of a topic) Serious, somber.
  • Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
  • heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. v. 6
  • The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.
  • * Wordsworth
  • Sent hither to impart the heavy news.
  • (British, slang, dated) Good.
  • Profound.
  • (of a rate of flow) High, great.
  • (slang) Armed.
  • (music) Louder, more distorted.
  • (of weather) Hot and humid.
  • (of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
  • (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
  • Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
  • The surf was not heavy , and there was no undertow, so we made shore easily, effecting an equally easy landing.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
  • Laden to a great extent.
  • Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
  • * Chapman
  • The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
  • Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
  • a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.
    a heavy writer or book
  • * Shakespeare
  • whilst the heavy ploughman snores
  • * Dryden
  • a heavy , dull, degenerate mind
  • * Bible, Is. lix. 1
  • Neither [is] his ear heavy , that it cannot hear.
  • Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
  • a heavy''' road; a '''heavy soil
  • Not raised or leavened.
  • heavy bread
  • Having much body or strength; said of wines or spirits.
  • (obsolete) With child; pregnant.
  • Synonyms
    * sweer/swear
    Derived terms
    (heavy) * heavily * heaviness * heavy-armed * heavy artillery * heavy chain * heavy-coated * heavy cream * heavy drinker * heavy-duty * heavy-footed * heavy goods * heavy-handed * heavyhead * heavy-headed * heavy heart * heavy-hearted * heavy hitter * heavy hydrogen * heavy industry * heavy ion * heavyish * heavy-laden * heavy-lift * heavy lifting * heavy metal * heavy oil * heavy particle * heavy roller * heavy sea * heavy-set/heavyset * heavy sink * heavy spar * heavy tail * heavy water * heavyweight * heavy wet * HGV * hot and heavy * semi-heavy * top-heavy

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • heavily
  • heavy laden with their sins
  • (India, colloquial) very
  • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
  • With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.
  • (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
  • A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.
  • (aviation) A large multi-engined aircraft.
  • The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.

    Verb

  • To make heavier.
  • To sadden.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power and/or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
  • The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.
  • * 1985 , Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives Weekly Hansard , Issue 11, Part 1, page 1570,
  • the Prime Minister sought to evade the simple fact that he heavied Mr Reid to get rid of Dr Armstrong.
  • * 2001 , Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible , Spinifex Press, Australia, page 557,
  • But he is on the wrong horse, heavying me. My phone?s tapped. Well, he won?t find anything.
  • * 2005 , David Clune, Ken Turner (editors), The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005 , Volume 3: 1901-2005, page 421,
  • But the next two days of the Conference also produced some very visible lobbying for the succession and apparent heavying of contenders like Brereton, Anderson and Mulock - much of it caught on television.

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the heaves.
  • a heavy horse

    have

    English

    Verb

    : Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast 'and second-person singular past tense''' hadst''' or ' haddest .
  • To possess, own, hold.
  • I have a house and a car.
    Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
  • To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
  • I have two sisters.
    The dog down the street has a lax owner.
  • To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
  • I have breakfast at six o'clock.
    Can I have a look at that?
    I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
  • Used in forming the and the past perfect aspect.
  • I have already eaten today.
    I had already eaten.
  • must.
  • I have to go.
    Note: there's a separate entry for have to .
  • To give birth to.
  • The couple always wanted to have children.
    My wife is having the baby right now!
  • To engage in sexual intercourse with.
  • He's always bragging about how many women he's had .
  • To accept as a romantic partner.
  • Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
  • (transitive with bare infinitive ) To cause to, by a command or request.
  • They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
  • (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement ) To cause to be.
  • He had him arrested for trespassing.
    The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
  • (transitive with bare infinitive ) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
  • The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
    I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
  • (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement ) To depict as being.
  • Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
    Anton Rogan, 8, was one of the runners-up in the Tick Tock Box short story competition, not Anton Rogers as we had it.'' — ''The Guardian .
  • Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below)
  • We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we ?
    Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she ?
    (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he ?
  • (British, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
  • I could have him!
    I'm gonna have you!
  • (Irish) To be able to speak a language.
  • I have no German .
  • To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
  • Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
  • To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative
  • He had a cold last week.
    We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
  • To trick, to deceive
  • You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
  • (often with present participle) To allow
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
  • "You're a very naughty boy. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. I won't have you chasing the geese!"

    Usage notes

    Interrogative auxiliary verb have ...?' (''third-person singular'' '''has ...?''', ''third-person singular negative'' '''hasn't ...?''' ''or'' '''has ... not?''', ''negative for all other persons, singular and plural'' '''haven't ...?''' ''or'' '''have ... not? ); ''in each case, the ellipsis stands for a pronoun * Used with a following pronoun to form tag questions after statements that use "have" to form the perfect tense or (in UK usage) that use "have" in the present tense. *: We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we ? *: Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she ? *: I'd bet that student hasn't studied yet, have they ? *: You've known all along, haven't you ? *: The sun has already set, has it not ? *: (UK usage'') He has some money, hasn't he ? (''see usage notes below ) * This construction forms a tag that converts a present perfect tense sentence into a question. The tag always uses an object pronoun substituting for the subject. Negative sentences use has'' or ''have'', distinguished by number. Affirmative sentences use the same followed by ''not'', or alternatively, more commonly, and less formally, ''hasn't'' or ''haven't . (See ). * In American usage, this construction does not apply to present tense sentences with has'' or ''have , or their negations, as a verb; it does not apply either to the construction "have got". In those cases, use "does" or its negation instead. For example: "He has some money, doesn't he?" and "I have got enough time, don't I?" These constructions with "do", "does", "don't" or "doesn't" are considered incorrect in UK usage.

    Derived terms

    * -'ve * be had * have a ball * have a cow * have at you * have it in for * have it off * have had enough * have had it * have nots * have someone on * have to * haves

    See also

    * auxiliary verb * past tense * perfect tense

    References